Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the feelings and perspectives of public university employees facing retirement. This is a quantitative study carried out with 82 workers in pre-retirement stage who participated in a retirement preparatory program. Results revealed that retirement is perceived as a well-deserved rest and as being part of life’s natural process. Feelings of freedom, satisfaction, anxiety, fear and unhappiness became evident, though. After retirement the employees intend to dedicate themselves to leisure activities, arts and crafts, exercising, spending more time with their families, doing technical courses, taking care of themselves or taking up a new job - other than their previous ones. Forty eight point eight of the responses showed the wish to work after retirement; 57.3 % reported that they were not prepared yet for retirement. The results of this study emphasize the importance of retirement programs in order to assist employees in coping with their expectations and needs during this stage of their professional and personal life.
Highlights
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) published in 2010 data revealing an increase at the top of the Brazilian age pyramid, showing that the population aged 65 or more had grown in the last years (4.8% in 1991 to 7 4% in 2010)
The present study aimed to identify the feelings and perspectives of public university employees facing retirement
Data were collected through a questionnaire with multiple-choice questions in order to characterize the population and four subjective questions which answer the study objectives. Those are as follows: a) What do you think about retirement? b) Which pursuits do you want to follow after retirement? c) Do you plan to continue working after retirement? Why? d) In your life, did you somehow prepare yourself for retirement? How?
Summary
The absolute growth of the population in the past 10 years was mainly due to the increase in the number of adults and elderly people.[1]. Ageing is directly related to those workers in retirement process. It triggers changes in the individuals’ daily routine, in their social life and in the labour market. Having a job can be a source of distress or gratification. Many people build their lives and are inserted into the social world thanks to it. It is a means of survival, and of professional and personal satisfaction.[3]
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